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Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her seat which started the Bus Boycott -
The U.S. cited the policy of containment to for involvement in the Vietnam War. Many lives were lost and the country ended up falling to Communism.
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Prohibited segregation in public places
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Nine African American students who went to school in Little Rock -
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New Cuban government under Fidel Castro -
African Americans staged a sit-in at a whites only lunch counter in Woolworths department store and eventually forced its desegregation. -
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Construction of the Berlin Wall begins -
African Americans would sit in integrated patterns on buses to end segregation
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CIA trained Cuban exiles aided by the U.S. government invaded Cuba and attempted to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. It failed an was a embarrassment to the Kennedy Administration -
First African American to attend the University of Mississippi
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Confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. In response to the United State's long time missile basis in Turkey, the Soviets deployed nuclear missiles in Cuba. Resolved when the Soviets agreed to remove missiles from Cuba if the U.S. removed their missiles from Turkey and formal pledge to not invade Cuba.
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Prohibited poll tax
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Prohibited the discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religion and national origin.
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Reforms to end poverty and racial injustices
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Becomes president. Appealed to people's desire for "law and order" -
Nixon began slowly withdrawing troops from Vietnam.
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Gives 18 year olds the right to vote
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Revealed that the government had lied to the American people about involvement in war
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Four men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters
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Mark the official end to the Vietnam War
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Because of the United State's support for Israel, OPEC placed an oil embargo on the U.S.
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Resigned as a result of the Watergate Scandal. The first and only president to resign from office.
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Becomes president